This Week with Taylor & Gordon

Taylor and Gordon Drayson

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A weekly vidcast/podcast for small businesses

Jun 26

Season 7 - Episode 250

Very hot week Celebrating 250 episodes of This Week With Statistics for the podcast Episode 1, 24th April 2000 Keeping a record of what we have been up to Total run time Shortest and Longest episode Average length, Average time between episodes Number of episodes per year We outlived the pandemic which was the reason for starting Health Kit for the podcast Transcripts and thanks to the lady behind them – Hayley Backdating the transcripts to episode 1 Guests on the show Planning for the 500th episode New personal website redesign in progress Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.

27 min
Jun 19

Season 7 - Episode 249

News – Apple WWDC happened, which means new software beta’s and an insight on new AI features Learning a New Skill – 3D Modelling Huge subject to learn Personal version of Fusion Metal bathroom holder needing to be modelled and printed in plastic Simple model, but there were lots of measurements to get right Didn’t have the bottles to go in, so had no idea if they were going to fit Took a photo and calibrated it when bringing it into Fusion, scaling correctly Callipers to the rescue It made a block so needed to create an offset and extruding that instead Adding fillets – rounding off Then print and hope Printed perfectly first time – and got sent a nice picture to show me the bottles fitted A success helps to push me forward Small steps at a time when looking at a new skill Finding skills to learn is scary but very worthwhile Building a form Migrating a website to a new framework, and rebuilding a crutial form Standalone app to deal with all forms in the future Setting a foundation and building on it as new requirements come along Passing data into the forms from browsing history Split testing included in the building process Changing things one at a time to increase conversions Testing and then re-testing Vue.js for the frontend to add interactivity Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.

21 min
Jun 12

Season 7 - Episode 248

New location, Gordon’s Office We went to Wordcamp Europe in Poland, Krakow European Wordcamp is the biggest of the conventions Reasons for going – networking with friends and colleagues Theme this year seemed to be AI Connecting WordPress using MCP to Claude Using AI to build pages, perform WordPress operations, correct grammar, create images, pretty much everything AI is good at Need to have a good understanding of what is happening so you can check it Four floors in the convention centre – live transcription and translations this year. Two huge rooms for lectures Food, drinks and snacks always available Evening parties – drinking and socialising WP Umbrella – great way to manage your websites – https://wp-umbrella.com/ Great country – Perogi was a favourite at meal times Lots of things to see Much cheaper than Switzerland last year Salt Mine visit was great – seeing all the salt sculptures Visit to Auschwitz – which was interesting and harrowing A good rounding off from my Anne Frank experience Rooms of shoes, hair, luggage, pots and pans Next year is in Malaga – a week earlier than this year Details at: https://europe.wordcamp.org/2027/ Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.

20 min
May 29

Season 7 - Episode 247

News – AI is created by a machine, so is not owned by anyone! Archiving Documents – for personal and business purposes Making searching easy and have it bring up relevant documents MCP server – to work with Evernote using AI on a CLI AI will create a context for the document – notes summarising the content Adding manual tags will work well but adding tags by AI makes things even better ScanSnap scanner is a hardware scanner and creates pdf files and uploads to Evernote Trix – Childrens Entertainer’s Convention 1.5 days convention Keeping up with new trends and ideas for the work I do Seeing whats new to purchase for shows The more experienced you have, the more careful you are with purchases Meeting people I know and those I haven’t yet met is the main reason I go Two hour Parties aren’t a thing overseas Great cabaret by Spencer Jones Next year – 2027 – will be the last convention Numbers have been dropping, which makes it difficult to pay costs and make a profit Loads of time and effort spent on these things What will take the place of Trix??? Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.

18 min
May 15

Season 7 - Episode 246

Show week Sorting out collection of props – old and more recent – some valuable, some not Spreadsheeting all the boxes Printing a Book Box with a living hinge for the cast Running out of filament at one point Not a great deal done on a show week Very tiring Waiting for Ikea to send replacement box lids still Noted plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/noted/ Adding notes that will remind you how to do things in the admin on a website you haven’t been to for 6 months Taylor had a framework he wanted to test out and took what Kyle had done and enhanced it Created a new version with a settings panel now Pin notes was a suggestion that was added, along with others Adding note to blocks Role permissions for adding notes Giving back to the community Small plugin that does one job really well Dashboard widget for home screen No show next week as Gordon is away at Trix Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.

16 min
May 8

Season 7 - Episode 245

The Diary of Anne Frank Tickets for 14, 15, 16th May 2026 – https://www.parlourplayers.co.uk Sending large files over the internet – 4.8GB wetransfer.com – maximum of 2GB for free accounts Blaze Quantum – for larger files – https://blaze.cx/ Purchased on AppSumo many years ago Keeping track of the software available to us on a spreadsheet If you forget you have software available to you, it is useless and a bad investment Considering building an app for this Flat Maintenance Dishwasher not working – talking to support Coffee machine broke and needed replacing Everything that goes with taking things apart and trying to fix things When coding, brain power is being focused… everything else can be done later You are forced to do things when you run out of plates for example Organise finances to be able to make decisions Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.

13 min
May 1

Season 7 - Episode 244

Internet went down Thursday Night – and took a week to get back up Lots of hassle getting it fixed Cloud smart home devices all stopped working Reflection – looking at yourself through a friends eyes One thing they think you do well and one thing they think you could do better at Would anonymous feedback be better? Does the person who gives you the feedback make a difference? Likening this to testimonials for your business We may come back to this to find out the results Brave and scary at the same time Finding trends Planing ahead – what to do when the internet goes down? Used up all my mobile data for the next month 321 Backup – 3 places, 2 different media, 1 offsite Backup important data – don’t forget settings files Video is too big to backup – finished edit goes on YouTube, Vimeo and my NAS drive Give the client the option to store the files for editing in the future – with a cost involved for storage Speak to the POP! client to see if they want the source files archived Giving the files to the client is not a good way to keep control of the product Time Machine for computer backups Do you have plans in place for downtime? Diary of Anne Frank Tickets – https://www.ticketsource.com/parlour-players Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.

20 min
Apr 24

Season 7 - Episode 243

Client Handling – Losing a Customer Delays on both sides Need all content before we start work on the site The sitemap grew from 12 pages to 42 pages Communication with the client was not good New design requested When the content is delivered the work then needs scheduling in The design is being taken on by the client as they liked them Prices change over time and the contract needs to show deadlines in place Fixes to put in place – explaining what is included and what isn’t Phased delivery and when to expect them Restart clause – if no progress for a period of time the project is paused – costs involved and when the restart can happen Weekly Updates – even there is no work done, explain why and what is needed Keeping communication channels open Adding accountability on both sides Mistakes made by both parties and the fit wasn’t working for us – leaving as friends Speaking on the phone can save time with lots of messages back and forth Finishing Projects – working on many projects but not finishing them Or deleting them without attached emotion Generating a random route for running or walking – https://tdrayson.github.io/routed/ Deciding what the “finished” app looks like Then you know when it can be released for use Chasing the New Shiny Object syndrome Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.

22 min

A weekly vidcast/podcast for small businesses

Creator

Taylor and Gordon Drayson
Years Active

2020 - 2026
Episodes

200
Rating

Clean
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